Device for making golf tees



Y Sept. 23. 1924.

, 1 N. LARSSEN DEVICE FOR MAKING GOLF TEES Filed Feb. 1, 1924 IN VENTUR.

Patented Sept. 23, 1924.

NIELS A. LARSSEN, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

DEVICE FOR MAKING GOLF TEES.

Application filed February 1, 1924. Serial No. 689,886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NIuLs ,A. LARssnN. a citizen ofthe United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey. and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Making Golf Tees, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices used in playing thegame of golf and more particularly to a device for making tees for the use of golf players during the progress of a game or for use in practicing the strokes of the game.

The object is to provide a simple, efiicient and inexpensive device for quickly making tees at any teeing ground of a golf course,

the use of the device eliminating actual handling of the teeing sand and also eliminating any stooping over or kneeling by the player when he is making a tee.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is'a top view of my device.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of Fig. 2 taken approximately on the center line of said figure and also showing the device in its first operative position in forming a tee.

Fig. 4. is a side elevation of a tee made b my device and supporting a golf ball in position to be struck by a golf club.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals Figs. 2 and 3 show the device in its upright. operative position. 5 being a preferably light metal tube the upper end "of which is frictionally or otherwise held in the bore 7 of a knob 6 and on the lower end of the tube is secured. as at 8. a downwardly opening funnel 9 which may have a small peripheric flange 9 at its lowest edge.

At each end of tube 5 I provide a suitably fixed weblO. both bored centrally for a slidable push bar 11 the upper end of which extends upwardly within the bore 7 of knob 6 and terminates in a button head 12.- A compression coil spring 13 encircles the bar between said head 12 and the adjacent web 10 of tube awhile below the lower web 10 I provide a bar 11 with a larger downwardly rounding button head 14;. the. rod being preferably of such length that the button hea d 12 is approximately in the upper end of bore 7 when the lower button head 14 engages the adjacent rounded sides of the funnel 9, the

spring 13 tending at all times to keep said sliding bar in the upper position, illustrated in Fig. 3.

In the use of the device it will first be understood that hitherto the most common way of making a tee for a golf ball has been for the layer to take a small handful of teeing When a player equipped with one of my devices wishes to make a tee he simply holds the device by its knob and pushes the funnel shaped end into the teeing sand 15 (Fig. 3). The latter is usually ordinary molding sand in plastic condition and the above manipulation of the funnel causes it to be filled with sand up to and against the roundedv lower surface of button 14, the tapering sides of the funnel tending to compress the sand within it. The player then removes the device from the supply of sand and the compressed sand in the funnel will remain there, being partially held by the flanged edge 9. Then the player merely holds the device with the flange resting lightly on the surface 16 of the teeing ground at any point from which he intends to drive the ball. By pushing downwardly on the button 12 with his thumb the lower button 14 will loosen the sand within the funnel. the rounded lower surface of said button forming a hollow 17 in said sand. The devce is simultaneously raised from the ground leaving a perfectly formed tee 18 in the hollow 17 of which the golf ball 19 (see Fig. 4) may be placed by the player in proper position to be driven toward the next teeing hole on the golf course.

What I claim is In a golf tee molding device. a tube, a funnel secured on one end of the tube and a handle secured on the other end. said handle having a bore concentric with the tube. said funnel adapted to retain a quantity of teeing sand in plastic condition. and means slidably mounted within the funnel. the tube and the handle for expelling the tceing sand in a frusto-conic, molded form with a press button on the upper end of said rod rounded depression in the small end of said and within the bore of the handle, a com- 10 form, said teeing sand expelling means compression 'coil spring about said rod and prising a rod arranged centrally and longiunder compression between said push buttudinally within the device and normally ton and the adjacent end of the tube.

spring pressed toward the handle, a down- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

- Wardly rounded button head on the lower end of said rod and within the funnel, a NIELS A. LARSSEN. 

